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November 26, 1936 Frank Sinatra is arrested by Hackensack, New Jersey, police on a breach of promise charge, meaning he didn't fulfill the promise of marriage after he "had a sexual relationship with a woman of good repute" named Antoinette Della Penta. The charges are dropped when it's revealed that the woman is already married. Antoinette goes after him on an adultery charge instead, but the complaint is dismissed in court.
November 5, 1936 "Stand By Your Man" songwriter Billy Sherrill is born in Phil Campbell, Alabama.
September 7, 1936 Buddy Holly is born. He lives just 22 years but influences many of the biggest stars of the '60s, including The Beatles. Don McLean's "American Pie" is about his death.
August 26, 1936 Duke Elllington music, Helen McKay sings "Here's Looking At You" as part of a test transmission for the BBC television service, making it the first song ever broadcast on television.
August 3, 1936 Kenny Hodges (bass guitarist for Spanky and Our Gang) is born in Jacksonville, Florida.
July 30, 1936 Buddy Guy, a blues musician who starts his career in the '60s as the house guitarist for Chess Records, is born in Lettsworth, Louisiana. He's most successful in the '90s, when he issues a string of Grammy-winning albums with guest appearances by many of his admirers, including Eric Clapton and Bonnie Raitt.
July 15, 1936 H. B. Barnum is born in Houston, Texas. A child star, he makes his foray into music as "Pee Wee Barnum" and later becomes a sought-after arranger for the likes of Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, and The Supremes.
July 15, 1936 Country singer Tommy Dee is born in Vicker, Virginia. In 1959, he writes the hit "Three Stars" in honor of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, who tragically died in a plane crash earlier that year.
July 10, 1936 Billie Holiday becomes the first major artist to record the classic song "Summertime," which was featured in the musical Porgy and Bess a year earlier.
July 7, 1936 Tommy Dee, known for the 1959 hit "Three Stars," a tribute to the late Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper, is born in Vicker, Virginia.
May 14, 1936 Bobby Darin is born Walden Robert Cassotto in East Harlem, New York City. Teenage Nina Cassotto became pregnant out of wedlock and, to avoid scandal, had her mother raise the baby as her own while Nina passed him off as her younger brother. Bobby finds out years later that the woman he knew as his beloved mother was actually his grandmother.
April 29, 1936 Pop singer April Stevens is born Carol LoTempio in Niagara Falls, New York. She and her brother, Nino Tempo, will perform as a duo and win a Grammy Award for the 1963 single "Deep Purple."
April 23, 1936 Roy Orbison is born in Vernon, Texas. He has a run of hits in the early '60s that include "Crying," "In Dreams" and "(Oh) Pretty Woman," and in the '80s he makes a remarkable comeback when he's championed by the likes of George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
April 22, 1936 Glen Campbell is born in Billstown, Arkansas. Raised in abject poverty as the seventh of 12 children, he makes his way to Los Angeles in 1960 and becomes a sought-after session musician.More
March 20, 1936 Lee "Scratch" Perry, a reggae musician, label boss (Upsetter) and producer, is born in Jamaica. Known for his work with Bob Marley, Perry also records with Keith Richards, Beastie Boys and George Clinton.
January 29, 1936 James Jamerson, the bass player in Motown's house band The Funk Brothers, is born in South Carolina. His distinctive grooves form the bedrock of many hits released on the label; good examples of his work are "My Girl" by The Temptations and "Where Did Our Love Go" by The Supremes.
December 23, 1935 R&B/jazz singer "Little" Esther Phillips is born Esther Mae Jones in Galveston, Texas. At age 14 she's discovered by Johnny Otis, a musician and talent scout, and soon lands her first hit with "Double Crossing Blues."
December 11, 1935 Steel guitarist Tom Brumley (of Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, Stone Canyon Band) is born in Stella, Missouri.
December 9, 1935 Country singer David Houston is born Bossier City, Louisiana. His 1966 breakthrough hit "Almost Persuaded" spends nine weeks atop the Country chart - a feat not matched again until Taylor Swift's 2012 smash "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" goes on a 9-week run.
November 26, 1935 Actress and singer Marian Mercer is born in Akron, Ohio. Won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in Promises, Promises, a 1968 musical based on the classic Jack Lemmon/Shirley MacLaine film The Apartment.
October 15, 1935 Singer/songwriter Barry McGuire (of The New Christy Minstrels) is born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, but would be raised in California.
October 1, 1935 Thirteen-year-old Judy Garland signs with MGM and goes on to star in a number of hit films, including Meet Me in St. Louis, Easter Parade, and The Wizard of Oz.
October 1, 1935 Julie Andrews is born Julia Elizabeth Wells in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England.More
September 30, 1935 Johnny Mathis is born John Royce Mathis in Gilmer, Texas. He is raised in San Francisco.More
September 8, 1935 The Hoboken Four, featuring a 19-year-old Frank Sinatra, appear on NBC's popular radio program Major Bowes and His Original Amateur Hour. They sing the Mills Brothers song "Shine" and earn the most votes in the history of the show, with 40,000 people calling in.
August 20, 1935 Country singer/songwriter Justin Tubb is born in San Antonio, Texas, to Texas Troubadour Ernest Tubb.
May 13, 1935 Pop songwriter Teddy Randazzo is born in Brooklyn, New York. Known for '60s hits "Pretty Blue Eyes," "Goin' Out Of My Head," and "Hurt So Bad," among others.
April 14, 1935 Loretta Lynn, a coal miner's daughter, is born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. She overcomes poverty to become one of the most beloved and influential women in country music. "She blazed so many trails for all of us girls in country music," Miranda Lambert says.
March 31, 1935 Trumpet player Herb Alpert is born in Los Angeles, California. After defining the "Tijuana sound" on his 1962 song "The Lonely Bull," he becomes one of the top-selling album artists of the '60s, behind only Elvis Presley, The Beatles and Frank Sinatra. He's also a label boss, with A&M Records (his partnership with Jerry Moss) home to Cat Stevens, Styx, the Carpenters and many other top acts.
March 6, 1935 Sylvia Vanderpool of the duo Mickey & Sylvia is born in New York City. As Sylvia Robinson, she forms Sugarhill Records and assembles the Sugarhill Gang of "Rapper's Delight" fame.
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